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Hi,

I have been using a Python script to launch various applications but have run into a problem when trying to build some resiliency into it. A second script i created waits and checks for a certain window title to take focus and then clicks on the OK button if it appears:

w=win32gui
foreground = w.GetForegroundWindow()
windowtext = w.GetWindowText(foreground)
if re.search('something',windowtext)
 code to click the OK button....

The problem is that I really need to search for the text in the message box window and not its title : the two are different and the error text contains a string I am looking for. However, "windowtext" only gets the message/error dialog box title.

Is there any way of finding the dialog box contents rather than title?

Cheers,

Matt

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That's what GetWindowText is supposed to do
If you want to get the contents, you have to do something like this:

import win32gui as w

WM_GETTEXTLENGTH = 0x0E
WM_GETTEXT = 0x0D

t1 = w.SendMessage(hwnd, WM_GETTEXTLENGTH, 0, 0)  #hwnd has to be the handle to the text control
t = " "*t1
tl = w.SendMessage(hwnd, WM_GETTEXT, tl + 1, t)
Edited by jcao219 because: n/a
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